$39.60
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
9 March 2020
Summary
Threads of Resistance: How Sewing Tells the Untold Stories of History
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RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
For the mothers of the disappeared in 1970s Argentina, protest was difficult. Every Thursday they marched in front of government buildings wearing headscarves embroidered with the names of their lost children. Through sewing, they found a way to campaign. In Tudor England Mary, Queen of Scots was under house…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473687936 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473687934 |
| Author: | Clare Hunter |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 9 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
It’s an astonishing feat, this patchwork quilt of history, culture and politics, which takes us from Saxon England to colonised African tribes, Palestinian villages, rural China and the cramped homes of American slaves … Her highly impressive debut is a richly textured and moving record of a history that has largely being lost. - Sunday Times
Triumphant … an inspiration to anyone who has ever thought of picking up a needle and thread. - Mail on SundayAstonishing … Hunter studied creative writing and cleverly uses personal narrative to create a persona one will instantly like … so well written. - TLSFascinating - Daily TelegraphA blend of history and memoir, the book roves across centuries and continents to reveal how sewing has played a crucial part in our lives - from courts and battlefields to prisons and drawing rooms… Many of the stories in Threads of Life are heart-breaking…This beautiful, moving book makes you want to rush out and grab a needle. - Radio TimesEnchanting - S MagazineEnthralling… By unpicking the seams of the clothes on our backs, Clare Hunter has brought to light elements of history that have languished in our collective attic for far too long. Threadsof Life is a terrific book. - The HeraldEnthralling…beautiful… An inspiring and moving sideways look at history. - Sunday ExpressAbout The Author
Clare Hunter
Clare Hunter has been a banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator for over twenty years and established the community enterprise NeedleWorks in Glasgow. Her first book, Threads of Life, won the Saltire First Book Award, was a Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month and a Radio 4 Book of the Week.
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